End of June

Beginning of the week, lots of catch up and to-do's, calls and clean-up.  Lemon bars cooling, chicken curry to make, quilting and qigong practiced.   

Pillars of Rome

From T & J trip to Oregon last month...

Late June

The yard is filling up with rose of sharon, sunchokes, grapes, mulberries, and blackberries, oh my.  Profusion! The male tree of heaven has saturated everything with tiny blossoms and the flies are drawn to the fallen blooms. Abundance and fecundity everywhere!

Hooray it's Friday

For me that means cleaning and laundry to get ready for the weekend.  Just finished a new painting to share as well, tomorrow maybe.

More mandala play

88 degrees today

It is warming up, may have seen the first lightning bugs last evening.  The thunderheads are piling up high and white above, dark below.  Summertime in PA.

Midsummer

The roses...

Midsummer or Midsummer's eve

Most places the latter, Croatia the former.
Here is my

Midsummer's Eve quilt to celebrate this special time of year.

Delight

A cool summer morning holding promise of a warm midday.

Solistice dawn

Raucous bird song rose up as the gold, orange, raspberry waves of colors streamed from the eastern horizon, squeezed under the lid of clouds; long, lingering and intense until all was overcast, left with the lush verdure against the neutral sky.

Refreshing break

The storms rolled through, the heat rolled out, hooray!
Lovely end to a beautiful spring.
The roses, lilies and spirea are laden with blooms, weighed down by their bounty of beauty.
We have celebrated with fresh organic green salads, fruit salads of melons and berries, veggie pastas rich with Croatian olive oil and fresh herbs from their pots, all the richness and ripeness of the season bursting with savory flavors.
Enjoyed with the background music of the birds, the passing drenching downpours and the light murmur of drowsy conversations.

And one in cloth

Mandala play

Heat's coming

Close the doors and shutter the windows -
heat's coming.
The onslaught may go on for days...
Chill the teas
lay out the percale
the hot days are here!

Father's Day

The rising sun
chased the waning full moon
off to the west this morning

Friday the 13th

Full moon passing,
downpours,
hot to cool to hot again

the lawn

Stars of clover
whiten the lawn
the tree of heaven is in bloom again

June

Thunderstorms boom in the night awaking us
foliage hangs heavily after the rains
the roses can barely keep their petals on
and the mulberries speckle the walks

Late spring

the net of honeysuckle scent
catches us unawares
on a damp, gray morning

Where it begins

the mark maker the miraculous hand